Re: Federer: "I consider it(WTF) the absolute best of the best tournament out there"

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Originally Posted by August

And how many RG titles would Nadal have if it was played on indoor HC/carpet?

Why not play the whole season on Indoor HC?

GSMNadal was responding to a user who was generalizing that Nadal cannot win against sustained opposition in a short period of time and that's why he hasn't won WTF.GSMnadal was simply responding to him saying that Rafa hasn't won WTF because of the surface and not due to sustained opposition.

He was simply saying that he can win against sustained opposition on any surface bar Indoor HC.He wasn't complaining that WTF is being played on Indoor HC like you have assumed.

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Originally Posted by Chris Kuerten

It has something divine about it. It's almost as if God came down upon the tennis court and pushed Seppi's ball inside of the lines. Quite a beautiful sight.

Re: Federer: "I consider it(WTF) the absolute best of the best tournament out there"

Tennis fan: hi Federer and Nadal! I have tennis rackets and balls, do you want to play?

Federer: where?

Tennis fan: here there are many tennis courts, I would love to see you guys hit some balls

Federer: oh there's no roof?

Tennis fan: a roof? Why it's a beautiful day, this is a summer sport, why a roof?

Federer: you know, when you are playing Rafa, till he is done with butt picks, time violations and fake injury time outs it will be dark alerady, in worst scenario it mighty start new seasonal period and start to snow, you know i have kids and they will be asking my wife why daddy is growing a beard and losing hair on TV

Tennis fan: hi Federer and Nadal! I have tennis rackets and balls, do you want to play?

Federer: where?

Tennis fan: here there are many tennis courts, I would love to see you guys hit some balls

Federer: oh there's no roof?

Tennis fan: a roof? Why it's a beautiful day, this is a summer sport, why a roof?

Federer: you know, when you are playing Rafa, till he is done with butt picks, time violations and fake injury time outs it will be dark alerady, in worst scenario it mighty start new seasonal period and start to snow, you know i have kids and they will be asking my wife why daddy is growing a beard and losing hair on TV

Tennis fan: ???

Rafa:

Try to be original instead of copying my idea. And the only question Fed's kids will be asking is "why is daddy crying?"

Re: Federer: "I consider it(WTF) the absolute best of the best tournament out there"

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Originally Posted by indianabones

Nadal fans need to come out of their silly little worlds. 1500 points potentially is a lot and if Nadal were to get them I don't for a moment think any of the Nadal fans would shoo it off as a meaningless event.

Nadal hasn't been able to win it, be it the surface or the indoor conditions, if he can't play on the most common surface in the sport and indoors which the crowd really enjoy, maybe he should stick to his 250 and 500 events in south america on outdoor clay.
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The WTF is a proper event, always well organised, brilliant structure and a fitting way to end the season.

I think you'll find only a few of the more zealous Rafatards consider it "meaningless". My point was that Nadal himself hasn't always prioritized the event, he's only played it 5 times and has gotten to two semis and a final losing to IndoorGOAT Fed each time, so hardly the awful record some would have you believe.

Crowds may love it Indoors, don't know either way on that one, but the Indoor season is a relatively minor part of the year, not the "most common" at all. Personally I consider tennis an outdoor sport so my interest tends to waver during this part of the year but I did like WTF a lot back when it shuffled between different cities and had BO5 finals. The one between Hewitt and JCF was particularly good from memory.